Having watched all of this, my two cents worth...
I enjoyed run levels working with Solaris, but I agree that the run levels
available are so-so. I can take them or leave them. I never liked
/etc/inittab.
I agree that /etc/init.d with start and stop is a good thing. The first
modification I make to my systems is add a loop at the end of rc.local that
does just that.
> I also don't see why ``init 6'' is more intuitive than ``reboot'', but
> that's a quark of a different flavour...
Well, as long as we're talking code bloat, one could add:
/etc/levels:
single 1 single-suser
...
and use:
getlevelbynam()
getlevelbynum()
And type "init single" or "init reboot".
Heh heh.
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Mark